but this is what i'm feeling from the game although i've only seen maybe 10~20% of the game:
if they recreated diablo 2's world with diablo 3's graphics, art choices and the like, it would not give me the satisfaction of the immersion and feeling i got from diablo 2- i don't really know how to explain this , but it's not like the art style is going to change depending on the location. act 2, 3 and 4 may consist of hell, caves, fallen monarchies, deserts and the like, but the art style - the brutal savaged corpses and the hints of torture within rooms, dead bodies really made me feel " wow, this is grotesque!" - with the combination of music and the gritty art that made diablo diablo. the animation i see within diablo 3 (from what i've seen and finally played! ) really makes me think that Blizzard tried to make this game accessible to the mass public, even in young teenagers- hence the choice in not as graphic (when i say this, i don't mean blood going everywhere i mean the way it is graphically presented)
maybe it's because i prefer single player in diablo 2, as i finished the game solo while beating andy, durial, then meph, diablo, and finally baal, and really grasped the world, if you know what i mean.
well, that's my rant- anybody get what i;m trying to say?
i already preordered diablo 3, (yaaay art book) but i just keep think to my self if it was any better.